{"id":175434,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/175434/?format=json","text_counter":218,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"REGULATION OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES PRICES THAT, in view of the escalation of prices of essential food commodities such as maize flour, sugar, rice, cooking fat, milk, et cetera ; considering the high poverty level of most Kenyans; further considering that to most Kenyans, three meals a day is a luxury; cognizant that the recent scraping of VAT on basic commodities by the Minister for Finance is a temporary measure; this House urges the Government to urgently step in and regulate the prices of these commodities in order to save the common mwananchi from unscrupulous traders."}